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Corona Devo 3323

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One of our neighborhood friends is amazing  with plants and flowers and trees and landscaping.  We drive past his house  just to see  what he has done lately...and greatly.  Living plants are his thing, and a gifting that the Lord has definitely given him.  Luckily for us, he shares his gifts, and the other day he brought our family over some bouquets of flowers that he had grown.  The arrangements (and his heart in blessing us with them) were beautiful, and I guess it's been five days since he delivered the vases. The flowers appear on the earth; t he time of singing has come, a nd the voice of the turtledove i s heard in our land.  ~Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers, and the greens, and the foliage that he put together all caught my eye immediately, but as I took them in that first night...something else caught my eye too:  a spider. A small arachnid, ( exactly the same hue as the ornamental beige grass tufting out of the arrangement), was p...

Corona Devo 3322

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Sometimes we forget... to be joyful.       ... To smile .   Sometimes we become detached from kicking-back and having fun ...but we shouldn't.     ...for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”  ~Nehemiah 8:10 Nehemiah  (in the Bible) said that.  Can we say that?   ...That  the joy of the Lord is our strength ? ( Nehemiah 8:10) And perhaps we might  say that, but do we believe it?  And--more telltale: Do we live  it?   Could anyone accuse us of being "fun" or "joyful"?  (I am asking myself this question...and you ask yourself.)   Would our closest family and friends say that we have joy  in our heart and life?  Our answer might not be one that makes us happy, but let's move past "happy", which is a circumstantial and fleeting feeling.  Joy  comes from somewhere deeper, and there is a meaningful reason at joy's  base: it's God. ...the joy ...